Simon Norberg wrote:
Hello,
I mailed Richard Stallman a while ago regarding a few things including
what he thought about openmoko and his answer was:
I could endorse it if they get rid of the plan to use non-free
software for the GPS.
I don't think the answer surprise anyone, but atleast we
On ti, 2007-04-24 at 17:02 +0400, t3st3r wrote:
As for me, I'm have to ask few unfair questions.
These are not unfair, IMO.
1) Why there should be some closed-source daemon which does some unknown
things?And why should I trust it, if I have no idea what it does?
Actually, closed-source
Raphaël Jacquot wrote:
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I'm still wondering *why* we need to use an AGPS device that's so dumb
that it needs the *host* to do most of the calculations, when we could
have used a SIRF-STAR III sensor, that does everything inside, just like
the GSM/GPRS module.
this sounds like this thing is
[and this was obviously meant to be sent to the list]
Simon Norberg wrote:
Hello,
I mailed Richard Stallman a while ago regarding a few things including
what he thought about openmoko and his answer was:
I could endorse it if they get rid of the plan to use non-free
software for the GPS.
I
Am 20.04.2007 um 08:48 schrieb Raphaël Jacquot:
I'm still wondering *why* we need to use an AGPS device that's so dumb
that it needs the *host* to do most of the calculations, when we could
have used a SIRF-STAR III sensor, that does everything inside, just
like
the GSM/GPRS module.
I
On Friday 20 April 2007 09:16, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
I would suspect: size, matching interfaces, availability, cost of
additional components?
When I worked on similar things, cost and updates were the two main reasons.
Sizewise often there wasn't such a big difference, cost was very
I have raised the question about this on [EMAIL PROTECTED] long
time ago. Similar issue to Wifi driver, but different decision.
However, I think we have to understand that building everything from
free/open source in the expected timeline is not that easy.
cheers,
--rd
On 4/20/07, Simon
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